Is that what the undefinedAttribute says in the spec? Because I really don't get what the local:* part in "attribute* -(xml:base | xml:lang | local:*)" means. In other words, if you wanted to stick to the spec, couldn't you have had dirns:dir instead of just dir: ?
Regards, Sammy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James M Snell Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:53 PM To: atom-syntax Subject: Re: Fw: Atom bidi attribute, empty string value Well, yeah, sorry for not being concise on that point. The point was more that there really was no need for a new namespace for the attribute. :-) - James A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-13 19:05]: >> Rather than create a new xml namespace, the bidi spec adds the >> dir attribute to the Atom namespace > > Attributes never inherit the namespace from any other part of the > infoset, so attributes written without a prefix are always in the > null namespace. > > Regards,
